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I usually get teased for my extensive list of fears, but here they are:
Cleithrophobia: The fear of being trapped. It's always confused with Claustrophobia, but the two are very different. If I was at say... an indoor, full sized football pitch and someone had locked all the doors and I saw no available way to get out. I would panic. But, elevators and things like that, I'm generally fine with.
Acrophobia: The fear of heights.
Entomophobia: Fear of winged insects.
I'm afraid of the dark and public embarrassment.
I have a fear of counselors and therapists. I don't know if there's a scientific name for that.
I have a fear of everything.
I have fears of rail road tracks and trains. I can't help but plug my ears when I hear one. I have such high anxiety about it. I also have fears of dolls. People make fun of me for it and set dolls on my desk but they don't really understand what it truly does to me.
Dolls can be creepy! I've had an incredibly supernatural event happen to me involving a doll and even though i own a doll, some types of dolls do freak me out
I don't know if they have names for my fears but I'm afraid of being betrayed/disappointing everyone/ganged up on/not believed by anyone (these occupy my imagination sometimes). Also, of dying before I'm ready (funny how it contradicts my depression). If anyone has a name for these that'd be interesting to learn.
I am scared of almost anything, but I have this massive fear towards snails... No one understands me, but when I see a snail I start shaking. I just find them scary.
Doors and slamming. Not so much a phobia. More a horrible sense of dread and suddenly, from nowhere.
I'm scared of the dark. Sort of. I'm scared of it being so dark I can't tell if my eyes are closed or open. I am scared I'll see something in the darkness, and the more I stare I realize it's the white of something's unblinking eyes staring at me, and the white of their teeth shining towards me, and I can't look away but the more I stare the more of the figure I can make out...
Also abandonment. It's hard to be alone. Yay adoption!
Does anyone remember that old twilight zone episode where the guy is the last man on earth and then he breaks his glasses? That utter aloneness to me epitomizes true terror. I'm afraid of being alone.
Well, that, and the ophthalmologist, they scare me.
I'm afraid of closing my eyes in the shower and I cover my ears when I flush the toilet, I'm afraid of public embarrassment, being alone in the dark (but it's weird cause I am perfectly fine with sleeping alone in my room with no lights on), being alone in the store, I don't like swimming in water if I know a ship has sunk anywhere in the area